Events Calendar

Jan 24 5:00 PM - 11:59 PMMAJWM 434French Major/Minor MeetingInterested in studying French of continuing your studies in French? Learn about the French major, which can be taken as a primary major or combined as a double major with another discipline. You can choose from a variety of minors: French for Business, regular minor, and a proposed Pathways French minor for the sciences We offer several study abroad options in France and francophone countries as well.
All are welcome. If you cannot attend but would like information, contact Dr. Richard Shryock at french@vt.edu

Jan 24 7:00 PM - 8:00 PMMajor Williams 334German Program Information MeetingThis is a meeting for undergraduates interested in learning more about the German program at Virginia Tech. information will be provided about the German major and minor, courses this semester, study abroad and internship abroad opportunities, and activities such as the German Culture Club, Teach for Jamie, and Kaffeeklatsch. German professors and advanced students will be available to answer questions.

Jan 25 12:00 PM - 1:15 PMRoom 005 (ground floor) of the College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences Building 200 Stanger St.Thomas Gardner Research TalkLunch is provided
Title: Sundays: Lyric Essays
Abstract: I will be reading from the manuscript of a new book of prose poems or lyric essays, due out from Tupelo Press in 2019/2020. Building on my 2014 book Poverty Creek Journal, these 52 short meditations, written on consecutive Sundays from August 2017-August 2018, move out from particulars of the day (weather, landscape, friends and family) to the various shapes desire takes as it reaches toward the world and beyond it and then comes undone. What do we find in such spaces, these short pieces ask. How does the mind move there> What comes alive in brokenness? Along with reading selections from my book, I'll speak briefly about the connections between this creative project and a more formal academic book I'm completing examining the way such artists as Terrence Malikc, Annie Dillard, Czeslaw Milosz, and Marilynne Robinson use lyri modes of thinking to open up and explore a series of theological issues.
Bio: Thomas Gardner is Alumni Distinguished Professor of English at Virginia Tech. He has published five books of literary criticism, the most recent being A Door Ajar: Contemporary Writers and Emily Dickinson (Oxford, 2006) and John in the Company of Poets: The Gospel in Literary Imagination (Baylor, 2011). His creative work includes two plays, Ear, and I, and Silence (2004) and Eurydice (2006); a book of poems, The Mime, Speaking (1992); and most recently a collection of lyric essays or spiritual improvisations entitled Poverty Creek Journal. The entries in this year-long running journal, mostly focused on morning runs in the nearby Jefferson National Forest, reflect on the boday, poetry, theology, family and grief. He has held Guggenheim, Fulbright, and National Endowment for the Arts fellowships.

Feb 05 12:00 PM - 1:15 PMRoom 005 (ground floor) of the College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences Building 200 Stanger St.Faculty Research Talk with Kelly PenderLunch is provided
Title: Toward a Rhetoric of Care for the At Risk
Abstract: In this talk, I report on a study of the critical and biosocial discourses surrounding BRCA risk, showing how constructivist understandings of risk in those discourses reinforce the rhetorics of choice that have dominated our thinking about genetic medicine for decades. In contrast to this rhetoric of choice, I advocate for a rhetoric of care, identifying in those same biosocial discourses a set of rhetorical topics that shift our attention from how or if women at genetic risk choose freely to how or if they receive good medical care.
Bio: Kelly Pender is an associate professor in the English department, where she teaches courses in critical theory, medical rhetoric, and the history of rhetoric. She is the author of two books, Techne, From Neoclassicism to Postmodernism (Parlor Press 2011) and Being at Genetic Risk: Toward a Rhetoric of Care (Penn State Press 2018).

Feb 06 4:00 PM - 5:30 PMBrush Mountain A (Squires Student Center)PPE Speaker Series/Center for Humanities: Douglas NoonanDouglas Noonan (Indiana University Indianapolis), a PPE Visiting Research Scholar for the spring semester 2019, will speak about "Freeing the Freelancers: Innovation, Crowds, and Markets". The event is co-organized with the Center for Humanities

Feb 11 8:00 PM - 11:59 PMSquires Recital SalonMusic on Mondays, featuring Ari Streisfeld, violinViolinist Ari Streisfeld has garnered critical acclaim worldwide for his performances of diverse repertoire and has established himself as one of the foremost interpreters of contemporary classical music.
http://www.aristreisfeld.com/

Feb 13 7:30 PM - 11:59 PMTheatre 101[title of show] T101 workshop performanceMusic and Lyrics by Jeff Bowen; Book by Hunter Bell
Jeff and Hunter, two struggling writers, hear about a new musical theatre festival. However, the deadline for submissions is a mere three weeks away. With nothing to lose, the pair decides to try to create something new with the help of their friends.

Feb 14 7:30 PM - 11:59 PMTheatre 101[title of show] T101 workshop performanceMusic and Lyrics by Jeff Bowen; Book by Hunter Bell
Jeff and Hunter, two struggling writers, hear about a new musical theatre festival. However, the deadline for submissions is a mere three weeks away. With nothing to lose, the pair decides to try to create something new with the help of their friends.

Feb 15 7:30 PM - 11:59 PMTheatre 101[title of show] T101 workshop performanceMusic and Lyrics by Jeff Bowen; Book by Hunter Bell
Jeff and Hunter, two struggling writers, hear about a new musical theatre festival. However, the deadline for submissions is a mere three weeks away. With nothing to lose, the pair decides to try to create something new with the help of their friends.

Feb 18 8:00 PM - 11:59 PMSquires Recital SalonMusic on Mondays, featuring Vice City Brass The Vice City Brass is a collaboration of five musicians who bridge the generational gap between the music of past, present, and future. The Miami-Based group incorporates new timbres through a traditional brass setting combined with electronic elements, creating a sound stage of unfamiliar yet welcoming territory. Technology meets art, creating a musical palette of colorfully epic proportions.
http://www.vicecitybrass.com/

Feb 19 4:30 PM - 6:00 PM215 Major Williams HallPPE Reading Group (215 Major Williams Hall)The PPE Reading Group will meet every other week during the spring semester on Tuesday 4:30 pm - 6:00 pm to read and discuss Elizabeth Anderson's (Michigan) "Private Government: How Employers Rule Our Lives" (free books provided). We will enjoy free pizza and soft drinks with our discussion. Please contact Gil Hersch (hersch@vt.edu) if you would like to join us (no need to be affiliated with PPE).

Feb 26 7:30 PM - 11:59 PMStudio Theatre, SquiresThe Foreigner - A comedy by Larry ShueA fishing lodge in rural Georgia is the setting for Larry Shue's comedy "The Foreigner," where two Englishmen, Froggy, and Charlie arrive as guests.
Pathologically shy and overcome with fear at the thought of making conversation with strangers, Charlie passes himself off as a foreigner from an exotic country who speaks no English.
He soon overhears more than he should, as the lodge's guests begin revealing their secrets, some benign, some less so, leading to a wildly funny ending in which things go uproariously awry for the "bad guys" and the "good guys" emerge triumphant.

Feb 27 7:30 PM - 11:59 PMStudio Theatre, SquiresThe Foreigner - A comedy by Larry ShueA fishing lodge in rural Georgia is the setting for Larry Shue's comedy "The Foreigner," where two Englishmen, Froggy, and Charlie arrive as guests.
Pathologically shy and overcome with fear at the thought of making conversation with strangers, Charlie passes himself off as a foreigner from an exotic country who speaks no English.
He soon overhears more than he should, as the lodge's guests begin revealing their secrets, some benign, some less so, leading to a wildly funny ending in which things go uproariously awry for the "bad guys" and the "good guys" emerge triumphant.

Mar 01 7:30 PM - 11:59 PMStudio Theatre, SquiresThe Foreigner - A comedy by Larry ShueA fishing lodge in rural Georgia is the setting for Larry Shue's comedy "The Foreigner," where two Englishmen, Froggy, and Charlie arrive as guests.
Pathologically shy and overcome with fear at the thought of making conversation with strangers, Charlie passes himself off as a foreigner from an exotic country who speaks no English.
He soon overhears more than he should, as the lodge's guests begin revealing their secrets, some benign, some less so, leading to a wildly funny ending in which things go uproariously awry for the "bad guys" and the "good guys" emerge triumphant.

Mar 02 2:00 PM - 11:59 PMStudio Theatre, SquiresThe Foreigner - A comedy by Larry ShueA fishing lodge in rural Georgia is the setting for Larry Shue's comedy "The Foreigner," where two Englishmen, Froggy, and Charlie arrive as guests.
Pathologically shy and overcome with fear at the thought of making conversation with strangers, Charlie passes himself off as a foreigner from an exotic country who speaks no English.
He soon overhears more than he should, as the lodge's guests begin revealing their secrets, some benign, some less so, leading to a wildly funny ending in which things go uproariously awry for the "bad guys" and the "good guys" emerge triumphant.

Mar 02 7:30 PM - 11:59 PMStudio Theatre, SquiresThe Foreigner - A comedy by Larry ShueA fishing lodge in rural Georgia is the setting for Larry Shue's comedy "The Foreigner," where two Englishmen, Froggy, and Charlie arrive as guests.
Pathologically shy and overcome with fear at the thought of making conversation with strangers, Charlie passes himself off as a foreigner from an exotic country who speaks no English.
He soon overhears more than he should, as the lodge's guests begin revealing their secrets, some benign, some less so, leading to a wildly funny ending in which things go uproariously awry for the "bad guys" and the "good guys" emerge triumphant.

Mar 04 7:30 PM - 11:59 PMStudio Theatre, SquiresThe Foreigner - A comedy by Larry ShueA fishing lodge in rural Georgia is the setting for Larry Shue's comedy "The Foreigner," where two Englishmen, Froggy, and Charlie arrive as guests.
Pathologically shy and overcome with fear at the thought of making conversation with strangers, Charlie passes himself off as a foreigner from an exotic country who speaks no English.
He soon overhears more than he should, as the lodge's guests begin revealing their secrets, some benign, some less so, leading to a wildly funny ending in which things go uproariously awry for the "bad guys" and the "good guys" emerge triumphant.

Mar 05 4:30 PM - 6:00 PMMajor Williams Hall, Room 215PPE Reading Group (215 Major Williams Hall)The PPE Reading Group will meet every other week during the spring semester on Tuesday 4:30 pm - 6:00 pm to read and discuss Elizabeth Anderson's (Michigan) "Private Government: How Employers Rule Our Lives" (free books provided). We will enjoy free pizza and soft drinks with our discussion. Please contact Gil Hersch (hersch@vt.edu) if you would like to join us (no need to be affiliated with PPE).

Mar 05 7:30 PM - 11:59 PMStudio Theatre, SquiresThe Foreigner - A comedy by Larry ShueA fishing lodge in rural Georgia is the setting for Larry Shue's comedy "The Foreigner," where two Englishmen, Froggy, and Charlie arrive as guests.
Pathologically shy and overcome with fear at the thought of making conversation with strangers, Charlie passes himself off as a foreigner from an exotic country who speaks no English.
He soon overhears more than he should, as the lodge's guests begin revealing their secrets, some benign, some less so, leading to a wildly funny ending in which things go uproariously awry for the "bad guys" and the "good guys" emerge triumphant.

Mar 06 7:30 PM - 11:59 PMStudio Theatre, SquiresThe Foreigner - A comedy by Larry ShueA fishing lodge in rural Georgia is the setting for Larry Shue's comedy "The Foreigner," where two Englishmen, Froggy, and Charlie arrive as guests.
Pathologically shy and overcome with fear at the thought of making conversation with strangers, Charlie passes himself off as a foreigner from an exotic country who speaks no English.
He soon overhears more than he should, as the lodge's guests begin revealing their secrets, some benign, some less so, leading to a wildly funny ending in which things go uproariously awry for the "bad guys" and the "good guys" emerge triumphant.

Mar 19 4:30 PM - 6:00 PMMajor Williams Hall, Room 215PPE Reading Group (215 Major Williams Hall)The PPE Reading Group will meet every other week during the spring semester on Tuesday 4:30 pm - 6:00 pm to read and discuss Elizabeth Anderson's (Michigan) "Private Government: How Employers Rule Our Lives" (free books provided). We will enjoy free pizza and soft drinks with our discussion. Please contact Gil Hersch (hersch@vt.edu) if you would like to join us (no need to be affiliated with PPE).